Monday, February 8, 2010

Felt you. Felt me

When I felt, I usually felt something that has been felt by me, that is coming from the inside consciously or not, like blank verse, as well as little games and experiments or I felt something that I felt about the person who has ordered the piece of felt. From a certain point of view you can always feel more comfortable with felting just what you felt coming from your own self. But it’s just one point of view. If you don’t have a privilege of only leting people find things that warm their souls but are truly you, you are finding your ways to feel comfortable in making things that feel like “they", i.e. you take custom orders. Though there must be a healthy balance between things “felt for yourself and felt for others” (different for every artist I believe), there is definetly so much value in felting for others. When a client makes an order, there is invisible connection built between the maker and the receiver. It’s complicated to explain that if you have never tried to experience “the other” in you…

I sense “the other”. Unconsciously I see the world and feel the world through my client’s eyes. I choose colors and materials that are that person. And it seems I can sense how that person moves, talks, how he touches the things I felt… And I felt a part of that person into any piece I make for him. And it usually doesn’t look like something I would felt if I was felting “myself”. Or the colors are not the ones that I would ever pick if I was felting just what I personally feel without any thoughts of anyone else… But…THAT connection with another human being (even in unconscious level) is something like a miracle that opens a world to you. It’s a connection that shows you the places you’ve never been to, makes you meet and know people you’ve never met or knew, it makes you feel being someone you’ve never been or will be… Perhaps that’s why when my client receives his order I usually get a feedback – That’s me!..

colors, style, forms…the story that is in that piece…anything and everything – how could you ever know that??

5 comments:

well being the artist in anticipation of the above fingerless gloves, i can see that even though we have never met, our year long online friendship has indeed clued you in somehow, some way into my sense of color and style. though you have never asked, you knew i loved the earthy brown....though you never saw, you see my eyes are blue and my birthstone as well as one of my favorite colors to wear. animal, spiney, very 'bodily' those gloves look like they were made for me and only me.good post, glad to see you are alive :)

Dear Vilte, I just read this blog for the first time and I am so amazed at the way you create your work through the connections you feel between yourself and the one you are felting for.I also love the fact that you like to take your time. I would be willing to wait years just to get something that came from that connection. Thank you for sharing. Sarah